All Films

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.

A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.

A 37-minute documentary from KRO TV in 1995. What was it like to live in the shadow of this transit camp? How did they react to it then and how do they look back on it now? Why did only 210 of the many Jews who worked as seasonal workers on the surrounding farms escape?

A kaleidoscope of rabbits, doing their thing.

This edgy, raw documentary explores the politics of disability through the performances, debates and late-night conversations of activists at a national conference on Disability & the Arts. Including interviews with well known disability rights advocates such as Cheryl Marie Wade, Mary Duffy and Harlan Hahn, Vital Signs conveys the intensity, variety and vitality of disability culture today. Open-Captioned. Contains strong language and nudity.

A two-part program looking at the making of the film Thunderball (1965). Part one, The Making of Thunderball, is followed by The Thunderball Phenomenon.

Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.

A young woman rehearses a speech for her mother.

Maine humorist Alan Smith explains how to eat a lobster. Was featured briefly on a Black Spine Edition of Best of the Worst. Uploaded to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/how-to-eat-a-lobster-with-alan-smith-full-vhs-w-tlu-8lu-8-dg-8

Passages, crossings, a last door that will not open, conceived and realized by Simone Massi.

This film is on the 'Tarana' gharana of Indian classical music. A Tarana Bandish normally does not use words instead it employs men monic syllables. Some of these are borrowed from tabla bols,some from the moment of her instruments. It has been suggested that these syllables may have religious origin both from Hindu and Sufi faith.

This film was a test of an idea for bi-pack shooting. I used some outtakes from Trigger Happy and had a positive and negative high-contrast print made. I had access to an Oxberry animation camera which had the ability to shoot “bi-pack,” which is to say two strands of film could be loaded into the camera gate at the same time, sandwiched together. By shooting through the black-and-white high contrast film, I could use it as a sort of filter, or contact print. This lets one fill in all the white or clear areas of the film with whatever artwork was under the camera. By shooting the same raw film through the negative and then winding it back and re-shooting it through the positive, I could replace both the black and the white of the film with whatever was on the stand. It was done very quickly in a spontaneous exploratory way. The resulting film test, one hundred feet of 16mm film had the original Trigger Happy outtakes now colored very vividly.

“Now I am happy, I am very well... I am cooking.” Six years after Jane Gabriel made the documentary “Island Οf Outcasts” revealing the inhuman conditions in the adult asylum on Leros, she returned to meet some of the men who had been kept naked in block 16 for decades, and women who had lived in filthy conditions. Now living freely with support in the community they talk about their new lives. This film records how Leros was transformed for both the ex-inmates and the staff - from being an island of incarceration and misery, into an island of liberty.

Tupada '92 is a coverage of the 1992 Philippine national elections that juxtaposes the hysteria of the campaign season with the precarious state of 31 million Filipino voters. Unsure of what the future holds, the documentary inserts a seer’s ominous visions, including the return to power of the Marcoses.

In live action, an old man feelds a flour mill. Two seeds are then transformed into animated lovers who dance their last waltz.

The memory of a tragedy of passion – a double murder that took place in a shepherd’s village 50 years ago – is preserved in the form of a ballad. The villagers recall the events and the musicians talk about the birth of this song that lacks the victim’s point of view, because the assassin is the one who commissioned them to compose this ballad.

"Cosmodrome" (= Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an act of "initiation" taking place in the cosmos - a key image between cinema architecture and cinematic space.

A man appears in his underwear in the middle of the street. He will try to go back home, but it won't be easy...

A dyke mother questions a recent trend of romanticizing motherhood and family within lesbian relationships - and does not bother to soften her vehement opinions. A fast, hard rant.

In a dingy punk club, two guys fight over a cute green-haired punk.

In this short comedy, two Canadian Muslim brothers are sleeping in their home when the barbecue in the backyard blows up. They are immediately suspected of being dangerous Middle Eastern terrorists and their neighbourhood turns against them. This film was inspired by events following the Oklahoma City bombing.

A guru and his follower, who have lived in the ruins of Angkor for 150 years, return to the world to save the Cambodian people.

A movie about used car dealers in post-Soviet Lithuania.